Saturday, November 8, 2008

I Promised You Some Color

I was going to take pictures of the yarn yesterday but a stop at Barnes and Noble got us home after dark. But I got up this morning and took the yarn out onto the Front Porch of Photography and here you go -- the latest order from The Loopy Ewe.

I got two of the special editions, named for some of the Ewe's best customers:

First up, Sharon's Island Time.

And Margi's Water Lilies.

I also fell in love with the colors here:

Lotus Toes' Malkah.

A couple of days ago I was putting something away in my closet and found this bag stuffed in a corner:

Inside were twelve skeins of Markoma Kid Mohair in an icy pale turquoisey blue. I think my mom picked this up for me on a trip to Switzerland....has to be fourteen or fifteen years old...

Ooh. It's pretty (and I love the Loopy Ewe colors! Payday is tomorrow!), but....I'm making a scarf with some kid mohair right now and I'm about to kill myself. Be vewy vewy caweful (not because I'm hunting wabbits) because it's really hard to unknit or rip. The stupid mohair sticks to itself. I nearly threw the scarf away last night and bought some normal laceweight. Like I said, pretty, but such a pain in the a....